Acronis weird one

[blakka]

I downloaded a trial version of Acronis after reading good reports about it on here. I decided I wanted to make a backup of a load of data that I had clustering my HD. All of the data I wanted to backup totalled to 20GB's worth. I went ahead and selected the "maximum" compression option as I wanted to crush down the size of the data.

Here comes the problem :-

After the backup/compression had finshed, i checked the size of the backup file that acronis made and to my suprise it was still 20GB

Am I doing something wrong here?

 

[blakka]

The files that I am backing up are video files. Most of the video files are camcorder recording's which are quite large (not compressed).

Are you wanting to backup the drives ASWELL AS compressing or just compress?

No I don't want to backup the drives, I just want to backup the data while at the same time compressing it.